I'm sure that many will agree that the upside of Obamacare is that the price of those drugs will be driven artificially down to prevent the greedy pharmaceutical companies from making profits.
Never mind that without being able to recoup development costs, those companies won't be developing new drugs. And when they can't afford to support research any more, that puts not only the scientists who work for those companies out of work, but also the scientists who don't work for them, but do the basic research into biology that eventually leads to new therapies and targeted drug development. There is no need to understand fundamental biological processes when nothing will be done with the knowledge.
Being one of those basic researchers, I'm having serious concerns about the future of my career. Obamacare is bad.
“Never mind that without being able to recoup development costs, those companies won’t be developing new drugs. And when they can’t afford to support research any more, that puts not only the scientists who work for those companies out of work, but also the scientists who don’t work for them, but do the basic research into biology that eventually leads to new therapies and targeted drug development. There is no need to understand fundamental biological processes when nothing will be done with the knowledge.”
You make excellent points that many haven’t even started to think about. The ramifications of Obamacare won’t be fully recognized for several years and by that time it will be too late. With Obamacare and his energy policy, Obama is pushing the US down to a third world country.